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A   CABOT    SOURCE 
WHICH   DOES    NOT    EXIST 


Extrait    ilt    la    Rrciii-    lUspiitiiqiu' ,    tome    X\' 


NEW    YOUF:,    PARIS 

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Among  the  contemporary  accounts  of  j>ilin  Cabot\  departure  on  his 
seconJ  vovage  in  the  spring  of  H')f<  has  hitherti  lifiured  a  so-called 
dispatch  of  one  of  the  Spanish  ambassadors  then  in  Hngland,  Gonzales 
dc  I'uebla.  As  first  printed  in  iSSi  bv  Si^nor  De  inioni  this  document 
reads  as  follows  : 

.  Lttttru  del  Or.  I'ucMa  ai  Ut  Lattolici. 
Ferdinando  e  Isabella. 

i:i  Rey  de  lngl.iti.rr.i  enibiotinwo  naos  armadas  con  otro  genoves  come  ' :  '  »n 
a  buscar  la  Isla  de  Brasii  v  las  vicindades,  liieron  pioveydos  "or  un  n'lo.  .'  ^■'• 
que  scran    vcnidv:     para   al  el  scpticmbre.  Vista    !a  derri  'le   llevan    .li" 

que  lo  que  liiiscaii  es  1  i  que  \\-  'ras  Altezas  poscm.  Kl  '.  .  me  ha  fablaJo 
al«unas  vects  siibrello  espt-ra  ha^er  nui\  gran  intcrcsse.  Creo  que  no  hay  de 
aqui  alia  cccc  leguas '. 

Signer  Desimoni  stated  in  a  note  that  this  document,  which  in  his 
opinion  liad  been  written  in  the  same  year  as  Fedro  de  Ayala's  letter 
of  July  2),  H9^',  was  ;.  inedita  e  conmuinicata  dalCih.  Henrico  Har- 
risse ;  c,  coiiio  ci  averte.  da  lui  copiata  dalle  carte  di  Bergenroth,  non 
dire.tamente  de^li  Archivi  di  Simancas  »  ■. 

.\lr.  Harrisse  published  this  document  himself  in  the  following  year 
from  this  copv  in  the  Public  Record  Oftice  sent  home  by  Bergenroth*. 


1.  Atli.ulhi  Scdfl)  Lignie  ill  Sloiia  l',iliia,  vo\.  XV,  pp.  2V)-t'  Geneva, 
iS8i. 

2.  Ihiil..  p.  197  :  "  Una  lettera  del  I'uebla  non  ha  data,  ma  evidentemonte 
essa  e  dell'  anno  medesimo  di  quella  dell"  .\yala,  »  etc.  Ayala  was  the  second 
Spanish  ambassador  at  that  time  in  Kngland. 

5.  IhiJ..  p.  254. 

4.  /r.i;/ l•/.SV'^lJ7/.•HC',l^'^  I'aris,  1,(82,  pp.  ;2«-^):«  DepOclic  de  Uiiv  Gonzales 
de  PucMa  aiix  lUjis-Catholiques....  Get  extrait,  pris  sur  les copies  rapportees  de 
Simancas  par  Bergetiroth,  nous  a  Ote  envove  du  Public  Record  Oilice.  » 


H.    P.    BIGGAR 


In  Mr.  Harrisse's  opinion  also  the  d;Uc  wastlie  same  asthat  of  the  letter 
written  on  July  25,  1498,  by  Pe  ro  de  Ayala  the  other  Spanish  ambas- 
sador then  in  England  '.  This  dispatch  was  republished  bv  Mr.  Har- 
risse  in  1896  -,  while  it  has  also  been  printed  in  the  Riua'llii  Cohm- 
biaiia  '  and  in  the  volumes  on  the  Cabots  written  bv  Tarducci  ■•, 
-Markham  \  W'eare  '  and  Beazley  '. 

An  examinaction  of  the  originals  at  Simancas  and  London  has  revea- 
led the  fact  that  no  such  dispatch  exists.  The  document  in  question 
turns  out  to  be  in  reality  nothing  but  a  resume  made  in  Spain  in  the 
summer  of  1498  of  a  paragraph  01  Ayala's  letter  of  July  25,  1498. 
In  the  original  letter,  which  is  still  preserved  at  Simancas,  the  paragraph 
in  question  reads  as  follows,  the  words  in  italics  being  in  cipher  : 

Bien  creo  I'ufslnis  Alle^iis  mi  oiilo  conic  el  rev  i/t-  Iiii^hUfira  hi  ficho  aninula 
para  ikscubrir  cierUis  insulas  0  tifira  fiime  que  le  han  ceitilicado  hallaron  cieilos 
que  de  Hiislol  anikuou  ol  alio  passado  para  lo  niisnio.  Yo  he  visto  l,t  oirtii  ijiie 
hii  ferho  el  iiiventiulor  que  es  otro  (iiiiinrs  conic  Colon  que  ha  estiulo  eii  Snilla  1 
.'//  l.hboihi  procuramio  liaver  quien  !e  ayudasse  a  esla  imyiuioii.  Los  tie  Iliislol, 
Ihi  siele  linos  que  caJa  ,i;/o  iiii  ai  nidilo  dos,  trcs,  quatro  Ciii\ivel,is  piira  ir  ,1  Inisdir 
hi  ishi  ilel  finisil  i  lis  Siele  CiiuUiJcs  con  l.i  fantasia  ilesle  Cjiiwves.  l-l  rei  Jeter- 
iiiiiio  lie  eiil'hir  /wque  el  ,ii'io  passado  le  liit^o  ceitinidad  liavian  Ihilhhlo  lienii. 
Del  iinuihU  que  hizo,  que  I'ueron  i/mo  11,10^.  fueron  iivilmilhiJos  p(>r  uii  ,ii'io.  Ha 
vciiido  iiiievii.  Id  uii,i  eu  que  ivii  un  otro  I-'nii  Ihiil  iiporlo  ,1  IrUiihhi  con  gran 
loniieiilii,  rolo  el  inivio.  1:1  Giuoves  liro  sii  cdiiiiuo.  Yo.  vistj  hi  JenvLi  que  lleiMii 
V  la  cantidad  </i7  camiiio,  hallo  que  es  lo  que  kiu  Imlhulo  0  bueaii  (sic),  lo  que 
/'Hi'.s//-,(i  .■///<■,-,(.( /iiwc;;,  porque  es  al    cabo  que  a   I'liestras  .4lte:^as  eiipo  por  la 


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IhUL,  p.  589  note  :  «  Xoiis  ne  coiinaissons  pas  la  date  de  cette  dcptchc, 
die  a  dCi  etre  adressee  en  iiK-iiie  temps  que  la  suivaiite  »,  i.  e.  .-Xvala's 
of  Julv  2;,  149S. 

John  Cahol  Ihe  Discoverer  of  \orlh  Americii.  pp.  ?9;-6.  London,  1896. 
Parte  V,  vol.  II,  p.  21H.  Ronia,  1894. 
Di  Gioianni  e  Sehistidiio  ('.iholo.  p.  J),.  Venezia.  1S9:. 
'n>e  journal  ol  Chiistopher  Columhus  and  Doeumenis  rehitiirr  to  Ihe  I'owu'es 
hnC.ohot.  etc..  p.  207.  London.  1895. 
Cabot's  Discovery  of  S'orth  America,  p.  159.  Louden,  1897. 
Jt'hu  and  Sebastian  Cabot,  p.  100.  London.  1898.  VA.  also  (i.  I'.W'i 
liihlioiiraphy.  pp.  jvi-  London,    1400. 


i  iusliip, 


A    CABOT    SOl'KCK    \VI1I>..H     IKIl-S    KXIST 


convenencia  con  PorUigal.  Spcrasc  scran  vfnidos  piira  el  sctU-iihe.  Hago  lo  sabt-r 
a  Vuestras  Alk^js.  El  rci  nic  a  lablado  almmas  vczcs  sobrcllo ;  spfiJ  aifr  niuy 
gran  intercsse.  Crco  no  ni  quJtio  cientas  Ui;iuis.  Lo  le  dixc  creya  cran  las  Ihilli- 
this  pi'r  I'licstm^  .■^//I'^i/.t  i  ami  !>•  ilia  la  una  la^oit,  no  lo  (jiiei  lia.  Porquc  crco 
Vuestras  .4lti':;as  ia  lemlran  aviso  i.k  todo  e^to  y  ansiniismo  al  carta  o  napaniundi 
(sic)  que  cste  ha  f echo,  to  no  le  enhio  aora,  que  aqui  le  ai,  y  a  mi  vit  bicn  J.ilso 
por  tiar  a  enlenJer,  no  son  ile  las  islas  ilichas  ' . 

As  this  letter  of  Ayala's  was  extremely  long,  a  resume  was  made  of 
it  for  Ferdinand  and  Isabella  by  the  first  Secretary  of  State,  AIniazan. 
In  this  summary  which  is  still  preserved  at  Simancas  along  with  Ayala's 
original  letter,  the  above  paragrapli  is  abridged  as  tollows  : 

El  Kev  dc  Iri^latcrra  etiibio  cinco  iiaos  armadas  con  otro  ginovcs  como 
Colon  a  bus.:ar  la  ysla  del  Brasil  y  las  VII  ciii.'ades  =.  Fucron  proveydaspor  him 
ano.  Dizcn  que  scran  vcnidos  para  el  sctiemlire.  Vista  la  dearota  que  Uevan 
hallo  que  lo  que  buscan  es  lo  que  V.  Alt.  posseen.  El  Rey  me  ha  fablado  algu- 
nas  vezes  sobrcllo.  lispera  haver  muy  gran  Intcresse.  Crco  que  no  hay  daqui 
alia  cccc  leguas  '. 

Of  this  resume  of  Ayala's  letterno  less  than  three  copies  are  preserved 
at  the  Public  Record  Office  and  each  bears  the  correct  title,  «  Copy  ot 
Ayala's  letter  of  July  :),  1498  »  ^  In  every  one  the  above  paragraph 
appears  in  i'-  proper  place.  Moreo\er  the  late  Mr.  Bergenroth,  when 
publishingin  r862an  Knglish translation  ofthis  resume,  stated  in  regard 
to  the  above  paragraph,  that  it  was  <'  so  much  curtailed  in  the  deci- 
phering made  by  Almazan  that  it  was  necessary  to  decipher  it  again 
from  the  original  dispatch  «  '.  Accordingly  in  his  translation  he  gave 
the  original  paragraph  in  full  ',  and  at  the  end  of  one  of  the  copies 
of  the  resume  in  the  Public  Record  Office  added  a  transcript  of  the 
original  cipher  with  a  decipher  immediately  following  it  '.  For  these 
reasons  the  mistake  of  attributing  this  paragraph  to  Gonzales  de  Puebla 
seems  the  more  unaccountable. 

H.    P.    BlGGAR. 


1.  .\rchivo  de  Simancas,  Tratadoscon  Ingl.iteu\i,  leg.  2",  fol.  196. 

2.  Desimoni  (op.  cit..  p,  191,  note  2)  proposed  in  1881  reading  «  septe 
cidades  .1  for  ricin.laJes  and  in  the  Ka,colta  C.olumhiana  (Pte.  V,  vol  II,  p.  218.) 
the  words  I'll  ciudatles  are  actually  given  in  brackets  with  a  question  mark 
before  them. 


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